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Subject: CORINTH, GREECE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` AN EPISTLE FROM CORINTH, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Paul of tarsus, I have enquired of jesus
Last Line: An upward gaze. . . .
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Death; Jesus Christ; Dead, The


CORINTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many a vanished year and age
Last Line: Which seems the very clouds to kiss.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece


CORINTH, by NICHOLAS MICHELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Venice of classic times! Where dance and song
Last Line: And corinth bowed in death her beauteous head.
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece


CORINTH, ON LEAVING GREECE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood upon that great acropolis
Last Line: So in that parting hour was it with greece and me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Acropolis Of Athens; Corinth, Greece


ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A roman master stands on grecian ground
Last Line: By all the blended powers of earth and heaven.
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Flaminius, Titus Quinctius (227-174 B.c.; Freedom; Greek Independence (196 B.c.); Liberty


ON A CELEBRATED EVENT IN ANCIENT HISTORY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When, far and wide, swift as the beams of morn
Last Line: "which, at jove's will, descends on pelion's top."
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Flaminius, Titus Quinctius (227-174 B.c.; Freedom; Greek Independence (196 B.c.); Liberty


RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where are thy splendors, dorian corinth? Where
Last Line: Alone are spared to chant the halcyon's dirge.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins


RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, corinth, are thy glories now
Last Line: The nereids of thy double sea %alone remain to wail for thee
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins


THE CRANES OF IBYCUS, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From rhegium to the isthmus, long
Last Line: Struck by the lightning that reveal'd!
Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Cranes (birds); Ibycus


THE RUINS OF CORINTH, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where, corinth, is the glory of thy keep
Last Line: Unravished yet, to weep thy downfall stay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Ruins


THE SIEGE OF CORINTH, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the year since jesus died for men
Last Line: Thus was corinth lost and won!
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Variant Title(s): The Storming Of Corinth
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Courage; Valor; Bravery


TO CORINTH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Queen of the double sea, beloved of him
Last Line: They smell the floor whereon their necks must lie.
Subject(s): Corinth, Greece